[ SECRET POST #3896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3896 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Me Before You (film/novel)]


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03.
[Star Trek TOS]


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04.
[Persona 5]


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05.
[Andy Brennan and Lucy Moran from Twin Peaks]


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06.
[David Bowie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth"]


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07.
[Broadchurch]













Notes:

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Comments

Re: What stupid fandom stuff have you seen lately?

[(Anonymous)]

Someone one Tumblr complaining that a mostly-male series would have been so much more interesting and full of possibilities if there had been badass women put into it. Because apparently the sole presence of female characters suddenly awakens more possibilities than anything else. Honestly I'm just sick of the whole 'I'm going to talk about how female characters are automatically more amazing/badass/perfect than male characters in order to show how woke and progressive I am' trend on Tumblr (which also tends to lead towards tearing down female characters who dare to be problematic or reducing complex characters with strengths and weaknesses to 'uwu perfect badass queens').

Re: What stupid fandom stuff have you seen lately?

[(Anonymous)]

What show?

I agree with you though. I'm definitely over the discourse about female characters inherently being better and smarter and perfect and flawless just by virtue of being female. It's so boring.

Re: What stupid fandom stuff have you seen lately?

[(Anonymous)]

The most likely result of adding ~badass women~ to a mostly-male canon is that the women would just exist to be a suitable prize for the men. And the male characters' once-interesting character arcs would be consumed by cliched het romance. Wow, so many interesting possibilities!

I want more women in fiction too, but I hate when people think it makes you sexist if you don't love every shallow female character who meanders into the plot. Sexism plays a role in the lack of popularity of female characters, but the sexism is usually more on the creators' part than on the fans'. It's absurd to blame fans for not caring about female characters when, by and large, creators are sexist and produce female characters so poorly written that it's offensive.

Which makes it even more frustrating when the few actually well-written female characters are, as you said, reduced to being uwu badass queens. The people who profess to care the most about female characters are doing them a disservice.